Highly Specialist Physiotherapist COPD Team

Swansea Bay University Health Board; Swansea; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Swansea Bay University Health Board seeks dynamic clinicians to join its Respiratory Department, delivering a unified respiratory service across the Swansea Bay area. You will work with inpatients, identify candidates for early discharge, and support at-home follow-up.

Applicants should have a Physiotherapy degree, HCPC registration, and demonstrate leadership, service development and extensive respiratory post-graduate experience. Travel across sites and patient homes is essential.

Qualifications

• Physiotherapy degree or equivalent.
• HCPC registration.
• Specialist postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience.
• Advanced clinical skills / Non-medical Prescribing.
• Previous experience as an established Band 6 or 7.
• Managerial and leadership training/experience.
• Experience of service development.
• Community and MDT working.
• Supervision and delegation.
• Caseload management.
• Broad post graduate respiratory care experience.
• Strong communication and IT skills.

Responsabilités

• Deliver a unified respiratory service across Swansea Bay UHB.
• Visit wards daily to identify and support patients for early discharge.
• Accept referrals from Primary Care, WAST and existing patients to optimise quality of life.
• Manage caseload, educate, teach self-management and monitor recovery.
• Support education through formal and in-house programmes.
• Provide leadership and mentorship for Band 6 and 3 staff; contribute to service development.
• Attend MDT meetings and follow bespoke induction plan.
• Travel between sites and patient homes in a timely manner.

Connaissances

Communication

Time management

Leadership

IT skills

Formation

Physiotherapy degree

HCPC registration

Description du poste

Welcome to Swansea Bay University Health Board. We welcome applications from people who share our values: caring for each other, working together and always improving.

Job overview

We are looking for dynamic, visionary and hard-working candidates to join our expanding Respiratory Department. The team consists of Band 6 and 7 Respiratory CNS's and Respiratory Physiotherapists. The team will be responsible for identifying and assessing inpatients in hospital. Suitable in-patients with an exacerbation of COPD who are from the Swansea Bay area will be supported at home by this team. The team also works with patients ,GPs and Virtual Wards to prevent avoidable admissions .

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be expected to work with colleagues to deliver a unified respiratory service across Swansea Bay UHB.

Wards are visited daily to identify and support patients who are suitable for an early discharge and patients are then followed up at home

Referrals for Admission Avoidance are accepted from Primary Care, WAST and patients already known to the team and is very successful in optimising patients quality of life and preventing admissions

The team manage a caseload of patients to provide education, teach self management skills and monitor recovery from acute exacerbations of COPD in patients homes

Education is encouraged in the team by formal education and an in house education programme.

The COPD Team from the COPD arm of the Virtual Wards.

Leadership and mentorship for Band 6 and 3 staff will be an important part of this role and also ongoing service development and evaluation

The successful applicant will be supported via an agreed bespoke induction plan and at regular MDT meetings

Ability to travel between sites and patients homes in a timely manner across Swansea Bay is essential.

Working for our organisation

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Physiotherapy degree or similar
• HCPC registration
• Specialist post graduate qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Advanced clinical skills /Non-medical Prescribing
• Previous experience as an established Band 6 or 7

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Relevant managerial and leadership training/experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience of service development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Community and MDT working
• Supervision and delegation
• Caseload management
• Broad range of post graduate experience with significant specialist experience in respiratory Care

Skills

Essential criteria

• Communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills in complex situations
• Able to manage time effectively
• Able to demonstrate effective leadership and management skills
• IT skills

Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and applications are welcomed from persons with disabilities. A disability will not prejudice your application. If you are unable to submit your application in the requested format because of a disability please contact the Recruitment Team, who will agree a more suitable way for you to apply. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification will be invited to interview.